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I am not sure why there's so much optimism right now. I am extremely concerned. Every time the coyotes get the puck in our zone, they are allowed to move around the boards freely. They could have scored 3-4 goals in that period. We are lucky they suck at finishing. When are we going to stop playing so passive? I do not remember the wings ever playing this passive in the last 20 years that I have been a fan.

AND WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TAKE THE RESTRAINING ORDER OFF OF BERTUZZI SO HE CAN GO OUT AND NAIL SOMEONE? In one play he was skating with the guy who had the puck right along the board and backed off, never even touched him. I don't get it. That guy should be slamming people.

I'm highly concerned. We are fighting back a bit more but we have not had any great scoring chances and we are still getting manhandled, just not quite as bad as last game.

U GUYS ARE FUKIN ANYOING IM GONNA COME DOWN THERE AND KILL ALL YALL THE ONLY THING THAT SAVED UR TEAM WAS OSGOOD AND OSSGOOD SUKS 2 JUST LIKE UR WHOLE FUKIN TEAM I HOPE U HEARD THIS AND THINK CAUSE ALL I GOT TO SAY TO U IS UR A BUNCH OF FUKIN IDIOTS BARONS A HOOSER CUSE HE WENT TO UR TEAM AND I HOPE U GUYS SHOULD SEND UR TEAM TO ANOTHER CITY CAUSE U GUYS ARE A BUNCH OF FUKIN WHINERS GO CANUCKS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --- A canucks fan on stltoday.com

Alright i'm home, guessing the wings had a bad 1st, but thats okay i got my hossa jersey on, haven't lost a game yet while wearing it, so we will win tonight.

Yeah...once the Wings get into the offensive zone they are usually getting stuck on the boards and losing the battles. A couple of times we were able to crash the net but nothing major. We are hitting a little but nothing compared to the intensity Phoenix is putting into their hits. Also some Wings are skating then falling on their asses for no reason.